Following a decisive advisory board meeting, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser (pictured) is explaining his new long-term strategy to the public and shareholders in particular.
Kaeser took the reins of Siemens last summer, and has since focused on his priority of closing a yawning profitability gap with rivals such as General Electric in the US.
A major streamlining of the Munich-based company is in the works. The present setup of the firm's four big divisions - industry, energy, health care and infrastructure – will belong to the past. Siemens' hearing aid equipment business will be spun off and listed on the stock exchange.
Net profit up
The company also confirmed its interest in the purchasing Rolls-Royce's energy business.
More emphasis will be put on industrial software and digital production processes. It remains unclear for the time being how many more jobs will be cut in the wake of the restructuring process.
Also on Tuesday, Siemens announced it upped its earnings by 12 percent to 1.15 billion euros ($1.6 billion) in its second quarter, running from January to March. Revenues dipped, though, by two percent compared with the same period a year earlier.
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